Republican Congressman says America isn’t worth defending, because he has a friend whose kid’s music teacher is transgender

#454  [archive] SEPT. 13, 2024

$6-million
settlement for family of homeless, mentally ill man who starved to
death in solitary confinement awaiting trial for pointing finger guns at
Arkansas cops

Georgia Lieutenant Governor’s treasonous 2020 “alternate elector” ploy is deemed “reasonable and not criminal” 

Trump’s golf club hosted Nazi sympathizer with Hitler mustache at fundraiser for Jan. 6 rioters

Trump attends 9/11 memorial alongside wingnut who’s said 9/11 was an “inside job”

Trump says he’ll create unConstitutional task force to combat non-existent “anti-Christian bias”

Father of Ohio boy, 11, tells Trump and Vance to stop falsely claiming his son was murdered by Haitian immigrant The video made me cry and shake with rage.

Trump says he’d block federal fire aid for California until the state’s Governor “Newscum” OKs tax cuts for the wealthy

What exactly is Elon Musk threatening as he tells Taylor Swift “I will give you a child”?

Kamala Harris’s father wasn’t a Marxist

Antisemitic ads about Doug Emhoff target Muslim voters in Michigan

It’s so cool that AI can convincingly mimic someone’s handwriting!
This article is perhaps the most idiotic pro-AI propaganda yet published on a mainstream news site, but I gotta emphasize ‘yet’. 

Eight schoolchildren died from football injuries in past month 

Kroger “plans to lower grocery prices by $1 billion” if Albertsons merger is approved What a load of low-calorie bollocks. Mergers and acquisitions invariably drive prices up, never down — and in the unlikely event any price is decreased, it’ll be because of salary reductions from tens of thousands of people being laid off. 

North Dakota judge strikes down state’s abortion ban

Israeli strike on Gaza school killed six UN relief workers

UK will ban TV ads for junk food before 9PM (and entirely ban such ads online)

The dangerous myth of the criminal migrant

How a ruling against the Internet Archive threatens the future of America’s libraries Seems sad that kids’ freedom to roam the world has been taken away…

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Mark Cole
blogger, Rivets on the Poster Kenneth Cope
actor, Doctor Who Joyce Dennison
activist Michaela DePrince
ballerina  Alberto Fujimori
Peruvian President, then imprisoned Pravin Gordhan
activist Ed Kranepool
baseballer, New York Mets Stephen Peat
hockey player, Washington Capitals Peter Renaday
voice actor, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Saul Vasquez
in county jail  Masamitsu Yoshioka
attacked Pearl Harbor   9/13/2024   Logo illustration by Jeff Meyer. All opinions fresh from my ass. Click any image to enlarge. Comments & conversations invited. Tip ‘o the hat to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, Atomic Raunch, Bleepity-Bleep, Breakfast at Ralf’s, Dopplegänger Rental, Ensalada de lengua de pajaritos, A Sudden Violent Jerk, Mr Souza’s Happy Place, Voenix Rising, and anywhere else I’ve stolen links, illustrations, or inspiration.Special thanks to Linden Arden, Becky Jo, Wynn Bruce,
Joey Jo Jo emeritus, Jeff Meyer, John the Basket, Dave S, Name Withheld, and always extra
special thanks to my lovely late Stephanie, who gave me 21 years and
proved that the world isn’t always shitty.